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Of the Whigs of Edina, though sunk in despair, To our excellent King, the Petition and Prayer.

THIRTEEN resolutions have stated our grief,
With scarce resolution to ask for relief.
For who can forget, on a former occasion,
When called into office, the hopes of the nation,
While the voice of the whigs-(not the voice of
the King),

And our own louder voices, proclaim'd us the thing.
Though "three in a bed," yet each was a host;
For each could his genius, his eloquence boast.
Thus, possessing all talent, and vested with power,
John Bull was our dupe, and with joy hail'd the
hour,

When Britain again, renown'd in old story,

Should rear up her head, and resume all her glory. Ah! who can forget? scarce a year and a day Were enough for our triumph, enough for our

sway:

O'er our country we triumph'd, we scorn'd our allies,*

* The compassion recently displayed by certain learned whigs for the alleged slavery of Genoa, is probably intended to be some atonement for the desertion of all the allies of Britain, and the common enemies of France, in 1806.

And left them to fall, to a tyrant the prize.
At Pitt's name we rail'd, as the vilest of men---
Still his tax being but six, we rais'd it to ten;
Till from office, from power, and consequence
hurl'd,

We were push'd from our places, the laugh of the world.

Thus, Sire, at confession our sins we have told : Some are poor, some are fretful, and some have · grown old:

Too old now to mend, and too needy to bear,
We claim your compassion, solicit your care.
Should your answer be kind, not cold, like Decem-

ber,

Your name, as first toast, we all will remember;
Your bounty with praises we ever will greet;
We will fervently pray, and---more fervently eat.

14th Resolution.---That Mr. J. Clk thank the chairman for this effusion.

15th.---That the chairman thank Mr. J. Cl-k. 16th. That Mr. J. P. Gt may thank himse'f.

REPORT

OF

THE LATE GLORIOUS AND SPLENDID MEETING AT THE PANTHEON.

BY WILL WILLIAMSON.

SCENE-Circus.

Performers on the Stage-LEARNED WHIGS.

MOVED by Mr. JAMES GIBSON, that Mr. JAMES MONCRIEFF do take the Chair, and do thank the Meeting for the honour now conferred so unexpectedly upon him, having only been preconcerted at the Select Meeting of Whigs in the Parliament Square, on the evening of Thursday, December 14.

Mr. JAMES MONCRIEFF did then return thanks to the Meeting, and particularly to his learned friends near him, for the honour they had done him.

PRELIMINARY RESOLUTIONS

Adopted in the course of Mr. JAMES MONCRIEFF's Speech.

Imo, (Amid the acclamations of the whole Meeting, and the rapturous plaudits of the Learned Whigs present),---THAT this Meeting do declare itself the most prodigious, the most respectable, the most enlightened, and the best fitted to deliberate on all matters of foreign and domestic policy which ever was assembled; and altogether affording the grandest, and most imposing, and most animating* spectacle which Europe ever exhibited— particularly in respect of its being graced by the presence of the whole Constellation of Learned Whigs.

(This Resolution was frequently proposed to the Meeting by each of the learned speakers, and seemed to be the only Resolution of which the Meeting did not become thoroughly tired.)

2. THAT such being the character of the Meeting-so respectable, so enlightened, so spiritual,

*

Adopted in consequence of a suggestion of Mr. Cockburn, that the said speetacle would enlarge the dullest understanding, and warm the coldest heart.

and so far advanced in all things-it became most essentially and urgently indispensible to impress on the attention of its component members the importance and necessity-of keeping the peace and preserving order---of breaking no man's head, and picking no man's pocket.

(This Resolution, proposed by the Chairman in tones which shewed both his own sense of its' necessity, and the improbability of compliance, for a long time was very ill received, and, as soon as adopted, unanimously and perpetually forsworn.)

3. THAT it would have been infinitely more agreeable to Learned Whigs to live in peace at home, and in retirement (so far as their numerous vocations---[here the style of Mr. Delville in Cicilia was verbatim adopted]---would permit), and leave the State to other pilots; but that the history of the human race (antecedently to, as well as after the creation of the race of Learned Whigs), shewed that no state could flourish, if such a sentiment were generally entertained by them.

(The surprise excited by the first part of this resolution, and the confident manner in which it was promulgated, limited the applause to the acclamations of the learned Whigs-while the manner in which the latter part was worded (see Star for this odd sentiment) appeared to all, to be a